{"id":1257,"date":"2012-03-09T07:05:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2012-03-09T07:06:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:06:51","slug":"pokes-fall-to-unlv-in-mountain-west-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/pokes-fall-to-unlv-in-mountain-west-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokes Fall To UNLV In Mountain West Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wyoming’s first round game against the Rebels in the Mountain West tournament\u00a0was an all too familiar scene. Wyoming played a very poor first half trailing 28-11 when the whistle blew for halftime. The Cowboys\u00a0then stormed back and “won” the second half 37-28 but the hole\u00a0they dug for themselves was too big to overcome eventually falling by the score of 56-48<\/a>. Leonard Washington was the lone semi bright spot for Wyoming\u00a0scoring 11 points and collecting 10 rebounds. The difference maker for UNLV was forward Mike Moser who scored a game high 22 points on 9 of 16 shooting.<\/p>\n

The hallmark\u00a0of any Larry Shyatt\u00a0team is going to be defense but all too often this year it was the lack of offense that hurt the Cowboys against the better teams on the schedule. Once Shyatt\u00a0sorts out the programs offensive\u00a0woes as he brings in players that fit his system the Cowboys have a chance to really take off. The good news is this is just year one of the rebuilding process\u00a0under\u00a0Shyatt\u00a0and the program is ahead of schedule. The product on the court (offensive worries aside)\u00a0and the future outlook of the program is much better than it was a year ago.<\/p>\n

The season likely isn’t over yet either. Come Sunday the Cowboys should be selected to some kind of post-season play in the form of the NIT or the CBI with the NIT being the best bet. This will allow the team to get another week of practice in and have at least one more game to ply their craft. The NIT is all about motivation and I am sure Shyatt\u00a0will have the team focused and they could win a game or two against teams who are disappointed to only be in the NIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wyoming’s first round game against the Rebels in the Mountain West tournament\u00a0was an all too familiar scene. Wyoming played a very poor first half trailing 28-11 when the whistle blew for halftime. The Cowboys\u00a0then stormed back and “won” the second half 37-28 but the hole\u00a0they dug for themselves was too big to overcome eventually falling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[233,198,234,237,236,235,232,25],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy-tough","tag-las-vegas","tag-leonard-washington","tag-loss","tag-mike-moser","tag-nit","tag-shyatt","tag-unlv","tag-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}